The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, May 08, 1952, Page 2, Image 2

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    Editorial at Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Strew
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher””
Established in 18 8d—Published Each Thursday
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec
ond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association,
National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance.
Family Flies from
Hawaii to Lincoln
EWING—James Ruby, who has
been stationed on the Hawaiian
Islands with the navy, arrived un
expectedly last week for a six-day
leave. Mrs. Ruby and children ar
rived in Ewing last Thursday
from Honolulu, having traveled
by air from the Islands to Lin
coln.
Mr. Ruby expects to be as
signed at Norman, Okla.
Other Ewing Newa
Sunday, April 27, Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Sanders and family and Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Lee spent the day
at the country home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Hawk.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Funk and
daughters were 6 o’clock dinner
Stests at the home of Mr. and
rs. Mark Sehi on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shiffbauer
received a telephone call from
their son, William, of Oklahpma
City, Okla., on Wednesday, April
30, stating that he is being trans
ferred to Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Corporal Shiffbauer has just re
turned from a year’s active serv
ice in Korea and recently spent a
30-day furlough in Ewing with
his parents and other relatives.
Mrs. Frank MacNeill, of Oma
ha, came Wednesday, April 30, to
Ewing where she will be a guest
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Rockey, until she
receives her orders to sail for Ja
pan to join her husband, Lt.
Frank MacNeill, who is on duty
there.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G- Rockey
went to Greenfield, la., Sunday,
April 27, on business. They re
turned home Tuesday, April 29.
Deanna Emsic was a passenger
on the early train Frday morning
to Omaha where she spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Bmisc, at Ft.
Crook. Deanna has made her
home with her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Jensen, to
finish the school term, since her
parents moved the first of March.
Mrs. John Walker entertained
the Young Matron’s pinochle club
at her home on Friday evening.
Guests were Mrs. Gerald Chalupa,
Mrs. Richard Edwards, Mrs. L. P.
Dierks and Mrs- Ralph Munn. The
hostess served refreshments after
the games.
Wayne Kruntorad is hoime on
furlough from Ft. Riley, Kans.
On his return he will be trans
ferred to Ft. Benning, Ga., for
further training as a paratrooper.
Wayne is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Kruntorad.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wulf
drove to Clearwater on Thursday
to visit at the home of Miss Min
nie Neiderheider.
Eleven ladies gathered at the
home of Mrs. Melvin Napier on
Thursday, April 24, to form a
home extension club which is
sponsored by the county exten
sion ag'ent. Election of officers
was held with the following re
sults: Mrs. Manuel Fredericks,
president: Mrs. Melvin Napier,
vice-president; (Mrs. Dale Napier,
secortary an dtreasurer; Msr. Ar
chie Johnson and Mrs. Duane
Jensen leaders; Mrs. Wm. Lof
quest, news reporter. It was vot
ed to name the organization Seek
and Share club. At the close of
the meeting a dessert luncheon
was served by the hostess. The
next meeting will be at the home
of Mrs. Archie Johnston on May
Mrs. Gene Ruby and children
are guests at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Eacker.
Mr. Ruby is being transferred to
Rapid City, S.D., from Phillip, S.
D., and at present has been un
able to find a house.
Mrs. Everett Ruby, accompan
ied by her son and daughter-in
law, Mr. and Mrs. James Ruby,
were Norfolk visitors on Friday.
Mr. Ruby, of the navy, is enjoy
ing a six - day leave before his
transfer to Norman, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Jensen and
daughter, Ann, went to St. Paul
Friday to spend the weekend with
Mrs. Jensen’s sister and brother
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Rickert, and daughters.
Frontier for Drinting!
,
Prairieland Talk . . .
Both Cause and Instrument of Life’s First
Remembered Injustice Now Are Deceased
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN — It's a dull day
when the busybodies can’t find
something to keep things stirred
up. Doping the city water supply
with an organic poison in the
background for the moment, now
its public housing.
Most folks look after their own
housing and it is their business if
they elect to hole up in a remod
eled chicken
coup, a trail
er nouse, a one
time barn or a
swank architec
tural getup in
an “exclusive”
neighborh o o d.
Lincoln’s M a
yor Anderson
thinks the ag
itation of the
busybodies, sec
I __ onded by the
' venerable State
Romaine journal, is more
baunders or less hooey.
About the happiest chap I ever
ran across lives in a barn in a city
suburb, his quarters unswept and
table from which he eats loaded
with cans and unwashed milk
bottles parked beside the bath
tub and stool. Yes, he has a bath
but don’t believe ever gets into it.
But, wrinkled and old, “paddles
his own canoe” and seems su
premely happy.
Others who busybodies worry
about are satisfied with their lot
in life and prefer to be let alone.
Others would complain anyway
no matter where they lived.
Of course, we are out of the
sodhouse period, but as Joe Mann
once said, we probably got away
from the sod house too soon and
with all the modern shakedowns,
does life hold the sweet content
ment our fathers knew?
* * *
Ewing at the eastern edge of
Holt county and Stuart on the
west are well represented in the
news stories from week to week
in The Frontier. It has been some
years since I was in either of
these communities to tarry for a
time. Clarence Selah’s Ewing
Item, later John Tromersshauser
in the journalistic field in eastern
Holt, and John Wertz of the
Stuart Ledger, succeeded by Rosa
Hudspeth, had piquant paragraphs
that made their journals looked
forward to and and awaited for
from week to week, with one or
more citizens in a perpetual stew
fearing they would be the next to
get not very complmentary news
paper attention. The exchange of
editorial courtesies between “es
teemed contemporaries” has dis-4
appeared from the printed pages
along with the pungent and some
times humorous thrusts in the di
rection of certain citizens. And
those were times when gents con
sidering themselves under susi
cion didn’t wait until the papers
were in the mails but dashed in
and grabbed one hot off the
press.
Early in life children learn that
sometimes they are handed a raw
deal. The tragedy of life in war
torn lands is written in sorrow
laden lines on the troubled face
of childhood. The rightful heri
tage of children in all lands is not
destroyed homes but the joys of
hapy faimily life. In lands of
peace and plenty children are
made to suffer unjustly at times.
Teachers in schools may have
their favorite that ought to have
a whaling but an innocent one
gets it instead.
In early childhood I learned
that life can be unjust. In what
now is known as second grade a
hoy older and larger than I was
sat at the desk behind me. One
day in school he whistled so the
whole school heard and the stern
look on Miss Willy’s face turned
in our direction as she demanded
who whistled. The curley-head
ed lad behind me hung it on me
and I got it- He could lie better
than I could speak the truth.
Moreover, his dad was one who
had to do with hiring teachers.
A few years later I visited the I
scenes of imy early childhood. At
a business place I saw a sign 1
“Schucie Clothing Store.” The
boy’s name was Billie Schucie
who put that over on me in the i
long ago. I entered the store to
learn that it was run by two sons
of the guy I was looking for. I
was told Billie was dead.
Miss Willy, the teacher must
long ago have returned to the
dust of the earth as she was near
ing middlelife when I was her pu
pil. The cause and the instrument
of my first remembered experi
ence of life’s injustice were both
dead. The victim still writes his
weekly grind.
* * *
The day is dark and dreary.
Gray clouds in sullen grandeur
cover the vaulted skies. Cold
wind beats rain in your face and
the sodden earth reeks with damp
odors, water spurts under foot as
you walk and where the concrete
ends mud takes over, birds have
taken refuge in protected spots.
Street traffic is only a necesity.
In a very real sense we are all
wet this day of April in the
capitol city. Floods threaten the
Missouri river communities and
the hardy sons of the soil are con
cerned if not worried over the
season’s planting. Up there above
the sodden earth, above the gray
curtain that hides what lies be
yond, the sun still shines and
the silent stars hold to their
course in the depth of eternity.
And now I hear the call, Come
and eat! Yes, in spite of rain
and clouds and winds moaning
through treetops we from out on
prairieland eat.
* • *
The Frontier has outlived a
number of “esteemed contempor
aries.” O’Neill’s first paper was
The Holt Record, published by
Niobrara parties. T. V. Golden
and G. M. Cleveland floated the
Banner for a time. There was the
Tribune, Free Press, Holt County
Peopie, Item, Independent (not
the Holt County Independent but
a partisan organ sponsored by lo
cal interests and run by an im
ported ex-preacher by name of
messenger and a harmless little
fellow by the name of Wood), Al
liance Tribune, Sun, Beacon
Light. In addition to these bright
journalistic stars enlivening the
OWeill scene, other “esteemed
contemporaries’’ that lived for a
time in Holt county and passed
to the grave yard of newspapers
after the gravy platter of land
notices was licked clean were the
Stuart Ledger, Atkinson Plain
Dealer, Dustin Dispatch, Amelia
Journal, three papers at Cham
bers, one following the other, the
Eagle, Bugle and Sun, Shamrock
Pickin’s, Minneola Sun, Page Re
porter and Emmet Echo. What a
galaxy of glittering literary tal
ent Holt county had displayed in
its weekly papers. The editors
were first of all printers with but
one or two exceptions and the
exceptions were the first to fade
out. The papers were read, not
that much space was devoted to
news but for the scorching one
editor dealt another, for the sub- i
lime eloquence framing a simple
story of a trip to Dorsey, the
beauty of the word picture of
some local event and the heart
touching pathos when a home was
left in mourning.
• • •
Fifteen hundred Americans
with an itching palm for ex
ploring other worlds have their
applications in for reservations
on the first trip to the moon.
One woman says, take me to
Mars—anywhere to get off the
earth!
With something like <5,000 '
people driven from their h*mes
in flooded districts there 4 a
real and pressing need that
struck just about overnight, j
don't know why we talk an^
write so much about the nee-t
of flood water control and do so
little. Rivers must spread out
when there is more water than
the channel can carry and the
safest way is to build towns and
country homes far enough back
from the river's brink to be out
of reach of the backwash.
• * •
Dr. A. L. Soresi, a Brooklyn sur
geon of note, is promoting a plan
among surgeons to make it com
pulsory to have motion pictures
taken of surgical operations. He
thinks this will be a means of
eliminating “much of the guess
work which now exists.” . . The
Los Angeles Rain Bonnet com
pany is turning out a hat for la
dies that is to serve the purpose
of an umbrella. I saw a dainty
miss out there one rainy day
with a Sunday edition of the Los
Angeles Times covering her fair
head, which may have given
some gent hunch to turn out a
rain bonnet. . . A lamp contriv
ance that turns on a light when
the telephone rings just intro
duced will be a help against
cracking your shins on a stool
when you roll out of bed at mid
night to answer a telephone call
. . A puncture-proof tube made 1
3f butyl rubber is something now
in travel equipment, the pro
moters claiming the tube will out
vear several sets of tires. . . Alco
holic drinks consumed in the
Jnited States is just under 3 bil
ion gallons yearly, with Wash
ington, D C., guzzlers toppiHg the
list in per capita consumption.
* * *
A young man took his life by
the bullet route. He was a stu
dent of philosophy with high
rating at the state university.
Philosophy can destroy faith in
the simple varilies of life. "Ig
norance is bliss, 'tis folly to be
wise."
• * *
In 1932 Dwight Griswold, then
a resident of Gordon, was a can
didate for governor. In 1952, now
a resident of Gering, Mr. Gris
wold becomes a candidate for
United States senator. It is some
what thankworthy that we have
citizens both capable and willing
to take on official responsiblites
with the attendent public gripe
that is involved.
Attend Derby—
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Froelich
left Monday, April 28, for Louis
ville, Ky.( where they attended
the Kentucky derby. From Louis
ville they went to New York
City. They expect to be home
Saturday, May 10.
Sioux City Visitors—
Mr. and Mrs. David Bellar
nt fro mMon arpAdli.y ,a dgw
spent from Monday, April 28, un
til Tuesday in Sioux City on bus
iness.
W. F. FINLEY, MJ).
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